About Evergreen Tacoma

Welcome to Evergreen, Tacoma

Are you interested in a career that makes a difference in your organization or community?

Are you looking for a bachelor degree completion program that offers both day and evening classes to accommodate working adults?

Do you seek a diverse faculty and student body that work together to sharpen critical thinking, problem solving and collaboration skills to solve real organizational and community problems?

If you are a student like this, The Evergreen State College-Tacoma Campus may be just what you're looking for.

Evergreen's Tacoma program is committed to providing junior and senior-level students with an interdisciplinary, reality-based, community-responsive liberal arts education. The unique inner-city location combined with a curriculum that integrates students' life experiences and goals with an emphasis on diverse cultural perspectives provides a unique opportunity for students to go into local communities and engage in research, education and problem-solving projects that are as beneficial to those communities as they are to students.

If you are interested in a program that offers both day and evening classes to accommodate working adults; a diverse faculty and student body that work together to sharpen critical thinking, problem solving and collaboration skills to solve real community problems; and the ability to customize your program to meet your specific academic and career goals, The Evergreen State College-Tacoma Campus could be the program for you! We offer a unique liberal arts program culminating in a Bachelor of Arts degree.

Our campus is made up a diverse faculty and student body who engage in meaningful study and collective action for the purpose of making positive and lasting changes within our communities and our world.

NOTICE: SR16 and Sprague Avenue closes February 12, 2009.
For detour maps, current project information and alternate routes, visit the Washington State Department of Transportation web site.

Video – Evergreen Tacoma Faculty Interviews

Members of the faculty discuss teaching and learning in this video. 

Working toward social and economic justice, our students emerge as leaders in areas such as:

• Community & Organizational Development
• Law, Justice or Public Policy
• Public Administration & Management
• Environmental Studies
• Public Health
• Human & Social Services
• Education & Outreach
• Communication & Media Arts

To be eligible, you must be a college junior (90 transferable credits). Transfer students will be considered for admission to Evergreen based on Grade Point Average (minimum of 2.0 cumulative for all college-level work or 2.5 if transferring with a technical or applied sciences degree) and good standing at the last institution attended.

Check out our Bridge Program if you will have less than 90 credits by the quarter you want to begin attending. Financial aid and scholarships are available for those who qualify. We admit new students fall, winter or spring so contact us right away to get started.

At Evergreen-Tacoma, you can earn a degree AND make a difference!